According to the Usulis thinkers like Mulla Sadra...

According to the Usulis thinkers like Mulla Sadra, who followed a mystical philosophy, were heretics.38 Presently, Mulla Sadra and his works are hardly known or remembered in either the Shi'i or the Sunni institutions of North India. It thus appears that within a few decades of the death of Mulla Sadra (d. 1640), he began to receive notice from the scholarly circles in India and interest in his philosophy continued to be displayed at least up till the second half of the twentieth century.

This shows that despite the conventional Shia-Sunni divide, India and Iran yet belonged to a largely common intellectual region. It is difficult, however, to get an answer to the question as to how far Sadra's larger vision was integrated or adopted in Indo-Muslim thought - whether it was just noticed and docketed to be taught, or also endorsed fully in spirit. Previous…